POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : AOI pattern : Re: AOI pattern Server Time
5 Oct 2024 15:20:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: AOI pattern  
From: Lukas Winter
Date: 15 Apr 2009 12:38:10
Message: <49e60d72$1@news.povray.org>
Am Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:17:16 -0400 schrieb Warp:
> 
>   However, angle-of-incidence is *by definition* a view-dependent
>   pattern.
> In other words, it changes depending on where the object is looked from.
> That's the very definition of "angle of incidence".
> 
>   Thus I would expect for it to work always the same way regardless of
> how the object is transformed. In other words, I expect it to solely
> depend on the viewing direction (with respect to the normal of the
> surface), not the orientation of the object.

Because of this I would expect angle-of-incidence-depenedent shading to 
reside in a finish block rather than being a pattern.
Just my 2 euro-cents...


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